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Re:Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @12:08PM (#49260447)
So to make the APIs stateless (the "ideal" where they don't use server side sessions/etc) we ended up with this. I'm sorry but this is kind of hilarious. Given the salaries paid to the workers at these companies and the hype of the models, I can't believe they all fell to the same flaw.
Re:The next chapter of our AI momentum on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:44PM (#49185349)
Yeah. I’m guessing they’re behind the Chinese models in capability now
Re:The next chapter of our AI momentum on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:41PM (#49185308)
I guess Demis was about world models and the old talent saw the writing on the wall. Noam was a big one and this is just a continuation of that.

Don’t understand how Sundar is still running things, though.

I feel nothing but grief.
For code can't they distill from public GitHub commits? If they could figure out who used Mythos/Fable assitance in the commits.
Re:Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying on Friday May 15, 2026 @02:30AM (#48145230)
DDoS is just one of the impetuses for a service provider be MiTM'd
Re:Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:24AM (#48144864)
Yeah I'm sure one day it will transpire Cloudflare is affliated with intelligence agencies too. The solution to a "sudden DDoS" is to put their website behind Cloudflare. Wonder who can do those sudden attacks?
Wouldn't trust them not to take a copy and use it to distill. Wonder what security there is
Re:If I Could Make My Own GitHub on Friday May 01, 2026 @08:07AM (#47973825)
This exists in Azure DevOps as Approve with Suggestions
The list of claims and what was tested in the comparison can be found here https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/performance...
Re:Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @12:56PM (#46303009)
This will be fantastic for voice. I presume Apple will use it
Re:Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @11:47AM (#46301909)
Does this imply we don't need as much compute for models/agents? How can any other AI model compete against that?
Re:Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix on Friday December 05, 2025 @07:34AM (#46160445)
If HBO is ringfenced and funded then fine. Otherwise we're fucked.
Just the 1st tranche of shares would be like $6 billion at $220 so if they borrow against that they can fund it. If the hype continues they keep it going
I think OpenAI will try and continue this elsewhere, which would be pretty worrying. It lets them not give up any equity, just use their name to pump stocks and earn capital.
I don't know why Bloomberg TV are asking where this money comes from for OpenAI. It comes from the AMD stock holders. If the AMD stock pumps then OpenAI gets free money to buy more, without giving up equity. If it doesn't then OpenAI just walk away.
OpenAI are also using the market to fund some of their rollout instead of going public/giving up equity.
Re:The Gaslit Asset Class on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @02:17AM (#45434846)
I could always see how useful it is for criminal enterprise. That doesn't mean I want in. I wish I could avoid it altogether. Alas even stocks in my ETF holdings are proxies for some cryptocurrencies.
Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta on Friday September 26, 2025 @04:32AM (#45384189)
Yes, Cloudflare would be the ideal point for spy agencies to MITM things. It wouldn't surprise me if the funding for it came from them. And since they sit in between, many API audit logs wouldn't even flag intrusions because everything would look like you'd done it.
It's not just chats, is it? It says "coding sessions" too.
Re:Why the $25,000 car is going extinct on Sunday June 29, 2025 @09:24PM (#44418259)
I am pretty sure these cars still exist in Japan at roughly the same price point. I'm not talking about kei cars, either.
Re:Solving `UK Passport Application` with Haskell on Sunday June 29, 2025 @11:47AM (#44414011)
That's absurd! I hope it's all sorted out now. Personally hoping my kids won't have trouble when they turn 18 and have to interview.
Re:Solving `UK Passport Application` with Haskell on Sunday June 29, 2025 @05:51AM (#44411711)
Yes and in the British system names can be fluid, changed at will with no declarations being made. That’s how my mother was able to register my birth with the surname of her mother’s third (!) marriage. Birth certificates are also immutable in certain ways but not entirely everything on it is immutable.

Not to mention the passport office has forgotten previous decisions for my own passport where this sort of surname discrepancy has been explained away. (Including one passport where I am listed on a page of her passport!)

The NPCs are infuriating. I called, emailed and received a different answer every time. It was like a poor LLM.

After applying I had to explain to my mother that within the same batch of applications, one daughter required additional UK documents but the other one didn’t (the passport came), purely because one was born in the UK and the other one wasn’t. She rightly flipped out, raised it with an MP and it was resolved within a day.

Re:Solving `UK Passport Application` with Haskell on Saturday June 28, 2025 @08:51PM (#44409446)
I just went through hell this with one of my daughters. She was born in Japan and I had a hard time getting my mother’s surname matching what was on my birth certificate.

Long story short, I demonstrated I was born in England and that I have citizenship (a passport) so no matter the possibility, it must be something that can be passed on. That doesn’t match the guidelines of documents required but it’s much less of a pain I reckon.

Re:Japanese yen weakens to 160 against the USD since 1990 on Monday April 29, 2024 @01:17AM (#40194723)
I live in Japan and get paid in a different currency. Changing jobs feels out of the question now.
Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:16PM (#39532146)
While I’ll defend the right to make emulators, I do think it should not be published for a console actively sold in stores.
Based on this, I wonder if the main challenge has already been solved.
Re:OpenAI to discontinue support for the Codex API on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:09AM (#35243005)
I wonder if this is to stop JetBrains from competing with whatever solution Microsoft will (presumably) bundle in Visual Studio.
It's no wonder it's in decline.

We are considering having our second (we live in Japan) but the lack of daycare places is really hurting us. Even private daycares are fully subscribed. Moreover, if my wife gives birth, our child will have to come out of any public daycare she gets into.

Here we are, in our mid 30s, with a good household income and have ruled out a third already. We are not far from ruling out a second as well.

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